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Regardless of whether they spend the main part of their days in the mailroom or the corner office, we need our kids to develop to be gutsy, enthusiastic. We need their activities to move other individuals to be their best, to get more out of life.

As guardians and overseers of youngsters, their way to leadership is in our hands. It’s a major duty—however when isn’t being a parent a huge obligation?

Focus on the ideas below, and you’ll create leadership in your kids and yourself.

Emotional energy is that “something” in every one of us that is somewhat impalpable; it influences how we oversee conduct, explore social complexities, and settle on close to home choices that accomplish positive outcomes.

Youngsters take in emotional energy from their folks. As your kids watch you consistently, they mimic your conduct. Youngsters are especially sensitive to your familiarity with feelings, the conduct you show because of your feelings, and how you respond and react to their feelings.

Parents get sucked into fixating on accomplishment since they trust that this will make their youngsters into high-achievers. Rather, focusing on accomplishment creates a wide range of issues for kids. This is particularly obvious with regards to authority, where concentrating on singular accomplishment gives kids the wrong thought regarding how function completes.

Basically, the best pioneers encircle themselves with extraordinary individuals since they know they can’t do only it. Accomplishment fixated kids are so centered around honors and results that they never completely comprehend this. Everything they can see is the player who’s given the MVP trophy and the superstar CEO who makes the news—they expect it’s about the person. It’s a severe shock once they find how genuine functions.

Kids require acknowledgement to know a sound feeling of confidence. Shockingly, heaping on the praise doesn’t give them additional confidence. Youngsters need to put stock in themselves and to build up the fearlessness required to end up fruitful pioneers, yet on the off chance that you spout each time they put pen to paper or kick a ball (the “everybody gets a trophy” attitude), this makes perplexity and false certainty. Continuously demonstrate your youngsters how pleased you are of their energy and exertion; simply don’t paint them as geniuses when you know it isn’t valid.

The Victor Crew wondered about how Toys for Tots was started. Here is what we found out:

In the fall of 1947, Diane Hendricks handcrafted a Raggedy Ann doll and asked her husband, USMCR Major Bill Hendricks, to deliver the doll to an organization that would give it to a needy child for Christmas. Major Bill inquired and searched for an organization. In the end he determined that there was no such agency. Mrs. Hendricks told him that he should start one. He did start one that year in Los Angeles, California with his local US Marine Corps Reserve unit. He called it Toys for Tots. The Marines collected 5,000 toys that first Christmas with Diane’s handmade doll as the first toy donated.

Bill Hendricks’ 1947 pilot program was so successful that the United States Marine Corps adopted his local Toys for Tots project and expanded it into a nationwide community action project called the US Marine Corps Reserves Toys for Tots Program. Marines at each Reserve Center throughout the nation collected and distributed toys for needy children in the communities surrounding the center. Bill Hendricks’ initial objective remains the hallmark of the program today: “to bring the joy of Christmas to America’s needy children”.

Bill Hendricks, a Marine Reservist on weekends, had a civilian job as the Director of Public Relations for Warner Brothers Studios. His job enabled him to convince a wide array of celebrities to support Toys for Tots. In 1948, Walt Disney designed the Toys for Tots logo, which is still used today. Walt Disney also designed the first Toys for Tots poster used to promote the nationwide program. The Christmas posters have become an annual tradition of the program. Through the years the posters have featured such notable characters as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Dennis the Menace, Bugs Bunny and the Road Runner. Members of the Association of Handicapped Artists, Marine Corps Reserve artists and well-known professional artists, such as Ted Drake and Bob Timberlake, have designed the annual Toys for Tots posters.

In 1949, major celebrities began to support the Toys for Tots Program. Spokespersons have included John Wayne, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Andy Griffith, Clint Eastwood, Johnny Carson, Ann Margaret and John Glenn. There is a long list of celebrities who have given their time and talent to promoting Toys for Tots. In 1956, Oscar winning songwriters Sammy Fain and Paul Webster composed the Toys for Tots theme, which was recorded by Nat King Cole, Peggy Lee and Vic Damone.

From 1947 through 1979, Marines collected and distributed new and used toys. During Reserve drill weekends in October, November and December the Marines refurbished the used toys. That changed in 1980 for three reasons. First, the Secretary of Defense assigned the USMC Reserves a greater role in America’s defense. Reservists had to dedicate every drill weekend to honing combat skills. No time was left for fixing toys. Second, the public was becoming aware of the health and safety aspects of used toys. And third, distributing “hand me down” toys did not send the message Marines wanted to send to needy children. Their goal was to deliver a message of hope that would build self-esteem and, in the end, build responsible, patriotic citizens. They believed a shiny new toy was the best way to accomplish that goal.

In the late 1980’s, the Marine Corps determined that a non-profit charity was needed for the Toys for Tots Program. The Marine Toys for Tots Foundation became an operational organization in September 1991. The Foundation was set up to satisfy five identified needs:

Supply toys to supplement the collections of local units

Arrange and pay for the creation, publication, manufacture and promotion of support materials

Make it possible for individuals and corporations to take a charitable deduction on their tax returns

Enter into contracts with corporations to conduct promotions, producing royalties for Toys for Tots

Ensure that Toys for Tots operates in compliance with IRS regulations

Over the 68 years of the Toys for Tots Program, Marines have distributed more than 494 million toys to more than 230 million needy children. Over the 24 years of the Toys for Tots Foundation, it has supplemented local toy collections with more than 81.3 million toys. The Toys for Tots charitable endeavor has made the US Marines the unchallenged leader in looking after less fortunate children at Christmas. And it all started with one handmade doll.

You can have anything you want - if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish anything you set out to accomplish - if you will hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.”